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In October 1944, Douglas MacArthur waded ashore at Leyte declaring "I have returned" - fulfilling his famous promise to liberate the Philippines. What his moment of personal triumph concealed was a strategic disaster that would extend the Pacific War by at least a year and cost 200,000 American casualties in battles that served no military purpose. This documentary reveals how MacArthur's obsession with returning to the islands where his reputation was destroyed in 1942 corrupted American Pacific strategy. Drawing on Joint Chiefs records, strategic assessments, and post-war analysis, the film exposes how personal vindication overruled military logic when the central Pacific route offered a faster path to Japanese defeat. From the Joint Chiefs' efficient island-hopping strategy to MacArthur's politically motivated Philippines campaign, the story shows how one general's need for redemption prolonged a war that strategic bypass could have ended in 1944.

Sources:
Joint Chiefs of Staff - "Pacific Strategy Debates 1942-1944" (National Archives RG 218)
Douglas MacArthur - "Reminiscences" (1964) - Personal justifications for Philippines strategy
Ernest King - "Fleet Admiral King" (1952) - Navy opposition to Philippines operations
Chester Nimitz - "Central Pacific Campaign Reports" (Naval Historical Center)
Henry Stimson Diary - "Philippines Liberation Debates" (Yale University Library)
National Archives - "MacArthur's Political Appeals to Roosevelt 1943-1944" (RG 4)
D. Clayton James - "The Years of MacArthur" (1975) - Comprehensive biographical analysis
Ronald Spector - "Eagle Against the Sun" (1985) - Pacific War strategic decisions
William Leahy - "I Was There" (1950) - Roosevelt's chief of staff perspective
Samuel Eliot Morison - "History of US Naval Operations WWII Vol. XII" - Philippines campaigns

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